New Arrivals

So in the same session as the post below, I was in Borders, in the internatinal section and also picked this one up. It features one of my favorite players of the oud, a Middle-Eastern lute, Simon Shaheen. He's here with his group, Qantara and the two tenors, Wadi Al-Safi and Sabah Fakhri. If you're into orchestral Arabic music, you'll dig this disc. It's not crappy Euro-Arab pop, but old-style, done in the vain of Umm Khaltoum or Fairuz. It's put out on Ark21 so it should be easy to find. Also, here's the iTunes link.